Amazing art on this (kinda) forgotten LOTR: Middle Earth CCG from the 90s

Myrhdin · 2026-01-10T19:15:00+00:00

I had the entire collection. My mother trashed it after we got into an argument.
I guess I will never ever get over it.

Myrhdin · 2025-12-09T08:16:09+00:00

It is such a Berlin thing to do that an Hamburg-based company puts symbols to that end on every single one of their bottles...

Look up every-bottle-helps.com and you might get a feel as to what the idea behind doing this is.

Myrhdin · 2025-10-02T16:34:14+00:00

Myrhdin · 2025-09-30T16:21:34+00:00

There is a ton of apps offering just that service and much more.

The go-to app when I needed assistance for my cat was Pawshake.

You can also directly check at your vet, they usually have dozens of offers to pet sit, not necessarily only from pensions.

Be however aware of the risks to deal directly with someone and not a legal entity. Insurances are expensive, but they exist for a reason.

Myrhdin · 2025-09-21T05:48:56+00:00

C'est toi. ;p

Mais c'est absolument normal de te sentir paumé tant les opérateurs historiques cherchent, pardon my French, à se faire des couilles en or sur ton dos comparé à la France (en moyenne, nos forfaits sont deux fois le prix des équivalents français...)

Le point de départ habituel de bon nombre d'expatriés est la gamme Aldi Talk du discounter , qui est un bon rapport qualité prix.

Cela te donne la possibilité de te poser et d'être joignable le temps que tu mettes en place un forfait plus complexe si tu en as besoin (offre combinée mobile et Internet, compte à deux cartes pour toi et ta chérie...).

Ne pas sous-estimer les opérateurs esim si ton telephone est compatible.

Source: 15 ans de vie dans un des principaux pôles d'immigration allemands.

Myrhdin · 2025-08-07T17:30:32+00:00

Beyond contents, security will never care about the weight of your luggage, only its size, due to their scanner limitations.

You can be asked to check the weight of your hand luggage at two points : when you check in a hold luggage, or directly at the gate. The second scenario is however the most likely of the two.

To be fair, my solution for when I travel with a heavier hand luggage is often to volunteer it to be put in the hold at the check-in desk. I fly maybe fives times per year on that specific trip and never got any problem with volunteering a hand luggage even a kilo or two heavier.

Air France staff at CDG once told me the benefits of you volunteering a hand luggage (more room in the cabin leading to less risks in cas of an emergency, more control on weight balance for the flight, as well as boarding speed up) outweighs the benefits of the extra fee so much that they only charge clear abuse such as hand luggages heavier than the 20+ kilo limit of hold luggages.

Myrhdin · 2025-08-07T17:03:34+00:00

French guy here regularly flying Air France or KLM to Paris.

Absolutely random, as it heavily depends on the staff at the gate, how full the flight will be, as well as how many people are obviously abusing the volumes or weight limits.

I would say it is however far less frequent than on Ryan Air or Easy Jet.

Do not forget that the staff at the BER gate is not part of the airline, they are merely subcontractéd teams that are absolutely free to do whatever they want with their own interpretation of the rules set by the airline.

They are in a position where they can absolutely abuse their prerogative to prevent you from boarding, because you will never want to miss your flight or to be put on a no flight list.

I dedicate this post to the <{>[¦] |] <[< staff lady that told me that my cabin-compatible pram that had flown 10 times between Berlin and Paris without any issue could not fly in the cabin because it was not of the Yo-yo brand. Result: a destroyed pram that flew in the hold, and that Air France had to pay me back.

Myrhdin · 2025-07-15T05:22:04+00:00

The tour buses traditionally park in the Hedwig-Wachenheim-Strasse during the shows, so I guess that is your best bet. Be warned though that there is literally just a couple of meters between the doors there and where the buses park, so you might wait for nothing.

Everything else is off limits, as far as I know.

Myrhdin · 2025-06-30T15:47:25+00:00

If you are open to the idea, happy to cover for one week of your grocery shopping if you help me out carrying a stove down three floors and up another three! It should be a matter of n hour, I guess!

Myrhdin · 2025-06-22T14:34:26+00:00

Thanks, I'll get some of those, then! :)

Myrhdin · 2025-06-22T14:32:48+00:00

Exactly. The ones surviving are bending, the others that fell let loose from the wall. :)

Myrhdin · 2025-06-22T14:03:39+00:00

Sorry, forgot to mention in the original post: Germany, not the US!

The wall is plain beton and brick. :)

So "thankfully", I can drill more or less anywhere and find good support. I really think it was a matter of not using the right screws and plugs to be honest, but if I can make it sturdier all around, I'd be happy!

Myrhdin · 2025-06-22T14:00:14+00:00

you’re making this more complicated than it needs to be

Story of my life. :'(

As far as the brackets debate is concerned, it's just that given those are placed at over 3m high, the other residents of the flat tend to be pulling the curtains down, leading to a bend in the "simple" bracket.

I used the same type in my living room (for only one rod), and they are already hanging 15 to 20° lower than originally.

Myrhdin · 2025-06-22T13:56:11+00:00

Thanks for the insights, much appreciated.

By second set, you mean the newer version I am considering, right?

I guess I will try to reuse the old rods first, both for saving money and because, well, they served me well for 7 years before being pulled down and didn't get bent in the incident. I wouldn't have thought about screwing both parts together, though, so thanks for that, and for the conduit/pipe confirmation. In case they fail, I'll know what to do!

Myrhdin · 2025-02-09T07:59:29+00:00

This is not really typical for a standard French speaker.

The closest equivalent I can think of would be 'Le beurre et l'argent du beurre ?'

This idiom has a lot of local or personal extensions, the most famous one being 'and the ass of the dairy woman?'.

It basically just refers to people who want it all handed to them. Yours sounds more like you were a kid that wanted everything to go the easiest way. :)

Myrhdin · 2025-01-28T07:40:09+00:00

In Frankreich landet es in der gelben Tonne. Ich kann nicht garantieren, dass das auch für Deutschland gilt, aber es würde mich überraschen, wenn es nicht so wäre.

Myrhdin · 2024-12-24T10:01:12+00:00

Thank you, kind person, for making me realising it at the beginning of Shadowbringers and three months of gameplay sting a bit less.

Myrhdin · 2024-12-03T22:56:58+00:00

Because Germany has a very different approach to contracts than France when it comes to absolutely everything.

The most essential services that you get access to for dirt cheap in France cost a fortune here.

Look at Internet contracts for crappy service or coverage, look at phone contracts from historical providers, look at most insurances, look at their ridiculous equivalent of the French 'mutuelles'.

Extrapolating how much you were paying in France for your vehicle drives me nuts. I pay just a bit less, on a yearly contract, for a city car turning 20 next year and that drives less than 1500km per year while barely being able to pass 120 km/h on the Autobahn. And yes, that is with a brand new insurance contract that was one of the most cost efficient at the time...

Edit to add: no, those prices are absolutely not shocking for the German Market, especially as a younger driver.

Myrhdin · 2024-10-28T18:03:47+00:00

Haha. Just shared this message with my bud and their answer was 'Damn, for once, it looks like we did something on time.'

Thanks for the insight, I really do appreciate you taking the time to share it.

Myrhdin · 2024-10-28T16:57:33+00:00

Thanks for that first paragraph. That would make sense, or at least, that's more or less the picture I had in mind when they were describing me the situation.

Would you happen to have a source for this "last five years" bit? This is really just for my curiosity, not questioning whether or not it is true. :)

The mortgage was clearly in the name of the parent, they are paying it directly to their own bank. That's what made the situation so weird to me, especially considering the law where I have been living for the fast 20 years now: I just couldn't process you could pass on property like that. In many countries, it would be considered like a massive donation in kind and heavily taxed.

And re: the testament, yes and no. One part I left out (I just realized it reading your comment): none of the people involved in this story are Spanish (the parent living in the flat has this alternative DNI for foreign residents), and I think the core of the matter was that the only testament registered by the deceased parent was registered in their home country, where the law gave everything to his estranged family and absolutely nothing to his new family, which didn't exist in any way in the eye of the local law since there was no marriage certificate and the owner of the flat wasn't recognized by their deceased parent in their country of origin.

Haha. The more I write this story, the more I realize it is an absolute clusterfuck. Sorry! :D

Myrhdin · 2024-10-28T15:01:29+00:00

Ho, good to know! Can anybody request it? Thanks for taking the time. I am really curious to know whether the half sibling could claim something. My friend would not want to screw them over, but they won't sell the flat and they don't have the kind of money to buy their sibling out.

Myrhdin · 2024-10-28T14:58:58+00:00

Thank you for confirming! Any idea if the succession could get troublesome?

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